This is an analysis of the poem That House Once Felt Like Home Has Gone that begins with:

You may never know,
What it's like to fly....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbaXAXXb Xbcc dbdc cbXdddd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101 10101 1101 1101010 11101 010111 11010 111101 11011101 101 111000 111101001 11011101 10111 010101110 11111010111 1 1111101101 010101 111101 101110111 111101 111111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; had is repeated.

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  • summary of That House Once Felt Like Home Has Gone;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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